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skywhopper on Oct 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: EC2's most dangerous feature

Yeah, having the metadata available over an http interface is actually brilliant. Simple HTTP calls are easy to do from any network-capable OS or language.

_hyn3 on Oct 9, 2016 [–]

So is reading a file on the filesystem.. easier, actually in most languages, since HTTP requests usually require loading an extra library.

ChoHag on Oct 9, 2016 | [–]

A library which uses the same (built-in) underlying IO mechanisms as the (built-in) filesystem.

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